I also went to A&J Games while I was in LA kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hK1xf72Iu6-UkZc.html

Gameplay is awesome. Love them. When I was down on my luck, I showed up with a bunch of retro consoles and games to sell, but they had closed down trade-ins for the night. I had walked everything from Venice & Lincoln down to Gameplay, pushing it all on my skateboard (long walk when balancing stuff on a skateboard!). I was so dejected to hear the bad news. I was like, "Man I just wanna buy some food." Guy working there took pity on me and made an exception, opened up trade-ins just for me. I ate that night because of them. Once I bought Champions of Norrath from them but the disc refused to work. I brought it back and they exchanged it for another copy of the same game, no questions asked. I helped make a Wii U game, and I asked them if they would be kind enough to showcase my mounted poster advertising the game. Not only were they kind enough to do that for me, but they had it front & center on their counter, right next to a giant Link statue, for WEEKS! They are so flipping cool. I always check them before I buy at Gamestop. They more than earned my loyalty. Which is why I was so heartbroken to find someone recently broke into their store and completely trashed it, even going so far as to break their windows! What the heck right? Gameplay for life!

Over the market price mostly but a decent selection

What video game store do I need to visit next?

I love these videos. Please keep them coming.

That Seaman copy not only has the microphone, but the hard to find multi-memory card Sega released for PSO so people could have 4 different characters (basically a 4 in 1 vmu without the screen) and it usually goes for over $60 USD alone

Nice selection but the prices are kinda high and that's not including the 10% sales tax in some towns in L.A. 🤯

Use to frequent the store when I lived nearby. Was a great stress reliever for me.

"Opened up just for us". Elvis is in the building. 😎😎

wait, a red label variant of Blades of Steel?! I have *never* heard of that! a lot of those are definitely way out of my budget but always cool to see when they do have budget-friendly games! wish we lived closer they'd definitely be worth checking out.

crazy how much seaman has gone up over the years- good thing i grabbed it CIB like 6 years ago

I got to stop by next time I’m in so cal John thanks for the video they have a lot of stuff I’d like to browse through and start collecting again instead of just emulation

I didn’t know they had more than one. There’s one not to far from me in SoCal though I didn’t know the one in LA. They always have good stuff at the one I used to frequent.

The punisher on the NES that game when I play it's one of the few that when you play it you forget it's even an LJN game like it's actually fun. I just always wondered why it wasn't light gun compatible. Seems like it would have been up there with freedom Force if it hadn't been compatible. That copy of adventures of Batman and Robin only going for 30 bucks that's a good deal usually on eBay it's about 40 even just for the cartridge only. Makes me glad I picked that game up back in the day from KB Toys

Could you highlight Expensive games in your videos more. I find those more fascinating! haha See you in Portland!

We have a new store in town also… video soon. Love the Riggs go at retails it’s all good .posters and whatnot

When someone invents time travel in 2049, the first thing you'll do is travel back to 2022 and tell present day John Riggs not to buy Bébé's Kids for $40.

The competition in Los Angeles is stiff when it comes to hunting and buying. Plus rents are super high to that is passed in as well.

1.39: if peter sees that, 'seaman hehehehehe"

I use my Rob Robot as a switch lite holder :)

Great selection of games the store is nice and clean unfortunately some of the prices were higher than most as always you just have to dig in and dive through all the games to get the good deals

Nice store!

Always wanted the seaman game, first things first, I gotta fix my dreamcast

Great video

I just felt in my soul a child hood dream of mine to work or own a video game store just slammed into my head watching this....😎💥😵.

Reasonably prices!!!

Plenty of good games in there

Try calico games if you ever come to san diego

They should have more crt tvs running demos.

WAIT!! So did you pull the trigger on Caution Seaman? I would say its worth a playthrough and then sell it. Also the Mic isn't hard to find but not sure if any other Dreamcast games support the mic. Great video!

I knew about the Tetris and Dr. Mario SNES cart in fact I own a copy of it

Hate over the market price places, miss me with that shit. Punisher and Blades though is a good price

You should hit up double jump video games back in vancouver washington.

better than ebay prices

One of my top favorite games for ps1 bust a groove

0:28 man, I was upset when I had to buy Bust A Groove for the PlayStation for $80USD about 10-15 years ago😢

I picked up a copy of knuckles chaotix.

Nice selection for sure, but the sun fade in some products breaks my heart. 💔

hey Riggs, have you ever played world games for NES? No one ever mentions it and it"s a great party game. Up to 8 players I think

I love you, Mr Riggs, for pausing with Final Fantasy 2 in the picture.

If you can here to Lafayette La on Mar 11, 2023, 10 AM - Mar 12, 2023 ; Louisiana Comic Con 2023. I think you wound love the crsoes of video game imports for sell. I know I just got back Louisiana Comic Con 2022 and what to go to Louisiana Comic Con 2023.

I wonder if John ended up getting that Seaman game

"Gunforce is pretty cool" -Riggs

I used to go there all the time when living in LA… definitely overpriced but great selection

Riggs ‼️🤘

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Well ??? Did u get the seaman ???

Wooooo!

Wish we had cool game shops like that here in the UK.. probably 4 the best thou, as I'd blow my entire wages in there lol

So did you buy seaman

Wow, why is that Clayfighter so incredibly overpriced? The Turtles II as well, I just bought that game from a local shop for $10 mint. I would have haggled for that Seaman too as it's missing the pop filter for the microphone. That one is fairly priced though as it's hard to find.

Heard that car alarm going off , thought somone lost there tires 😮 .... loved the store ! Not bad on prices Jealous over the red blades of steel

Did you end up getting the Seaman Game???

$8 for the ver 1 web browser? That gonna take up important real estate in that glass case for no reason.

I didn’t see any Atari Lynx games

Cant believe Parappa the rapper sells for $180 now. I thought that game was pretty common

Arcade's Revenge is such a bad game. We wanted to like it, because we spent our a Christmas money on it. We played it more than we wanted, because we didn't have that many games and we had to get our money out of it. Spider-Man, and Wolverine weren't bad, but the others were just horrible

Game Play in Culver City on Venice Blvd. Nice. I used to live there and visited that store quite a few times. If I remember correctly, there is a video store next door. Did you check it out if it's still there?

Oh if we only knew as kids to keep our games in good condition, with the manual and box..course that's like saying if we bought Apple stock in 2005 lol

Did you end up getting seamen?

Dam he bought all those games I wonder how much it all cost

Hello

so....no seaman???

So glad I don't live in LA or NYC prices are insane over their.

But did you get seaman

They have another location in the Long Beach area in California n they price everything way over eBay at times, I went a few months back n I only got one game PSone game for a decent price but their system had it at a way higher one but he was cool enough to let it go at the price marked, but I will never go their again, never been to their LA store

35 for goldeneye is cheap

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Holy sh!t!!! Those prices!!! I'll just stick with emulation, they are very good now for retro games.

mario rpg 0.0

Gunforce early SNES game. very mediocre kinda clunky controls

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Wow since when did PS1 games get to be near $200? They shouldn't be worth more than $5 each.

I'm a strong believer that US games should be priced like Japan does for their games. Loose games should be cheaper compared to cib. And if the game is faded or label is damaged it should effect price even more.

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Totally over inflated prices. Who pays these prices?

Can't you just steal $999 worth of games and it's ok in cali

Anyone else feel prices starting to fall? I think its a mass selloff form everyone that bought during the pandemic

Idk, I don't like it when they by copies of games they already own. Let someone who doesn't have it get them.

N64 games are ridiculous in price.